tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:29:16 +0000Exchange 2010Exchange 2013Exchange 2010 SP1Exchange 2007Office 365Exchange 2010 SP2Exchange 2013 SP1Exchange 2010 SP3PowerShellExchangeExchange 2003updatetoolExchange 2016Outlook 2010SBS2003Server 2012ForefrontOutlook 2007VistaKEMPLyncOutlook 2003Server 2012 R2Outlook 2013virtualisatieDiversenHyper-VOfficeServer 2008 R2AzureOutlook 2016Server 2008Skype for Business OnlineVMwareExchange 5.5Forefront UAGOffice 2010SharePointWindows 7Windows 8Cloud PBXWindows 8.1Windows PhoneDPM 2007Microsoft TeamsNetScalerServer 2008 R2 SP1Server 2016Surface HubWindows AzureXPISALinuxLoadGenMOSSMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft StreamMigrationWizMySQLPhone SystemSBS2008SBS2011SysprepTechEdVisioWSSWindows 10My personal blog on Exchange, Office 365 and other Microsoft technologies.http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)Blogger443125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-6728619705121416427Tue, 05 Mar 2019 11:40:00 +00002019-03-05T12:41:04.376+01:00Microsoft StreamOffice 365While reading up on Live events (preview) in Microsoft Stream, I noticed a mention off the Stream Admin settings.I was not able to locate this in the Microsoft Stream web interface, so went to the Microsoft 365 Admin center instead. But no reference to Stream here either…Turns out that the Stream Admin settings are only accessible through Stream. In order to access the Admin settings the http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2019/03/how-to-access-microsoft-stream-admin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-1850852406214509594Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:35:00 +00002018-07-13T09:55:00.770+02:00ExchangeOffice 365Update July 13th, 2008: It looks like Microsoft reverted this change for now.“Constant change is here to stay.” Office 365 administrators may have noticed that Microsoft is revamping the Connectors area of the Exchange Admin Center. This section used to be a single list that displayed all connectors, which meant that it could be hard to identify the connector you were looking for.The biggest http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2018/06/updated-connectors-section-in-exchange.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-7360939495430921171Tue, 22 May 2018 08:40:00 +00002018-05-22T10:40:29.213+02:00PowerShelltoolRecently I was working on a task where I had to monitor the log files from a ftp server. At one point I had to find out if a certain client had downloaded a file with a specific name, or look for entries from a client with a certain IP address.One way to do this is opening the log file with a text editor and use the search function. Unfortunately this approach is not an easy way to detect updateshttp://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2018/05/how-to-monitor-log-file-in-real-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-8380619897720553717Wed, 16 May 2018 09:09:00 +00002018-05-16T11:09:26.727+02:00Microsoft TeamsOffice 365I recently ran into an issue where some users could not access Microsoft Teams, even though a license was assigned. This only happened to users with a Microsoft Teams license from the ‘Deskless Worker’ suite, also known as the Kiosk, K1 or F1 SKU.The reason for this is that the tenant-wide control to enable or disable Microsoft Teams by default does not include Deskless Workers. An admin has to http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2018/05/microsoft-teams-not-working-for-k1f1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-4335902000193904923Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:28:00 +00002018-03-28T10:41:38.985+02:00ExchangeOffice 365If you’re managing a larger organization, or even a smaller one, chances are that some of your coworkers share the same name. From an Exchange perspective this is not supposed to be an issue as the displayName attribute does is not required to be unique. End-users who try to locate the right person in their address book can look at the additional properties such as department or email address to http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2018/03/exchange-admin-center-cant-handle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-8706249479259921040Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:09:00 +00002018-02-27T17:12:16.996+01:00Cloud PBXOffice 365Phone SystemWhen porting numbers to Office 365 Phone System, the admin has to specify if the number should be a service number or a user number. The same applies when new numbers are requested. What’s the difference between the two number types, you may ask. The answer is easy.A user number is assigned to a single user.A service number is connected to a call queue, a conference bridge or an auto attendant http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2018/02/office-365-phone-system-numbers-how-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-7274852124605532493Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:46:00 +00002018-02-23T15:46:10.462+01:00Cloud PBXPowerShellSkype for Business OnlineSurface HubIf you ever had to create user accounts for modern meeting room devices such as Microsoft’s Surface Hub or 3rd party devices such as the Polycom Trio 8800 you may have noticed that process is basically the same. Create a Room Mailbox with an enabled account and a password, then enable the account for Skype for Business with the Enable-CsMeetingRoom cmdlet.Recently a coworker transferred a Skype http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2018/02/disable-voicemail-on-skype-meeting-room.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-6523221923612904945Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:59:00 +00002018-02-16T08:59:25.545+01:00Exchange 2013Exchange 2013 SP1Exchange 2016Office 365Centralized mail transport (CMT) is a hybrid mail flow scenario where all outbound email from Exchange Online is routed through on-premises servers first before sending it to the internet. It’s not really common but there are organizations with specific requirements that can be met with centralized mail transport.As you probably know, when the HCW is run for the first time, the entered http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2018/02/hcw-does-not-remember-mail-transport.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-8632309236872528494Wed, 04 Oct 2017 09:47:00 +00002017-10-04T11:51:09.545+02:00ExchangeExchange 2010Exchange 2010 SP1Exchange 2010 SP2Exchange 2010 SP3Exchange 2013Exchange 2013 SP1Exchange 2016Server 2012Server 2012 R2Server 2016toolRecently Microsoft announced a new web-based server management console, it’s called Project Honolulu. Looking at the documentation and screenshots this is going to be a huge step forward from the native sever management consoles that we have seen from Server 2008-2016.A technical preview of Project Honolulu is already available for download: https://aka.ms/HonoluluDownload Project Honolulu can behttp://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2017/10/project-honolulu-and-exchange-servers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-707189268974763496Mon, 01 May 2017 09:12:00 +00002017-05-01T11:12:41.111+02:00ExchangePowerShellToday I ran into the following issue. I tried to open a Remote PowerShell session to Exchange Online but the module failed to load with the error message: New-ExoPSSession : Create Powershell Session is failed using OAuth Initially I suspected that the customer’s firewall performed some kind of traffic inspection or recognized and denied the traffic as a blocked ‘application’. I was able to http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2017/05/exchange-remote-powershell-behind-proxy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-4635855839745313291Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:21:00 +00002017-04-11T13:21:54.123+02:00ExchangeOffice 365PowerShellAs someone who has been working pretty much dedicated with Exchange since ~2000 I have witnessed quite a few changes. The single most important one is the move to PowerShell as the primary management interface. The Exchange team was the first within Microsoft to switch for the full 100% to PowerShell and at least two version of Exchange have seen their release slightly delayed because they had tohttp://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2017/04/some-feedback-on-new-exchange.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-2930673757734496477Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:50:00 +00002017-03-24T11:50:45.926+01:00Exchange 2016Another example where old technology meets new technology. Old is in this case the Content Filtering agent on an Edge Transport server, new being Windows Server 2016. In short, the SmartScreen technology that is used in the Content Filtering agent conflicts with SmartScreen implementation in Windows Server 2016 operating system. At this point this is known to prevent a proper uninstall of http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2017/03/lets-not-run-exchange-2016-edge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-5487627899313251846Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:23:00 +00002017-03-16T10:23:55.521+01:00Office 365PowerShellIn a previous article I wrote about the new PowerShell module with support for Modern Authentication and Multi-factor Authentication. The Preview status was a reason for many organizations to hesitate to take the new module into production. Yesterday Microsoft released an updated version of the Hybrid Configuration Wizard with MFA support, the HCW now requires installation of the new PS module tohttp://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2017/03/new-exchange-online-powershell-module.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-3634844739820963170Tue, 07 Mar 2017 10:39:00 +00002017-03-07T11:39:05.686+01:00LyncOffice 365Skype for Business OnlineSurface HubI’m sure that most Lync or Skype for Business admins, users as well, are familiar with the Trust Model. The Trust Model is responsible for the ‘Skype for Business cannot verify that the server is trusted for your sign-in address’ warning. This warning is thrown when the clients tries to create a secure TLS connection with a server and the domain suffix of the server is different from the user’s http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2017/03/surface-hub-devices-and-skype-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-5304722243638129449Mon, 06 Mar 2017 15:34:00 +00002017-03-06T16:34:59.008+01:00Office 365Skype for Business OnlinePSTN calling is an add-on telephone service that, when combined with Skype for Business Cloud PBX, can become your phone system. This is currently available for users in the United Kingdom, United States, Puerto Rico, France and Spain. Microsoft now introduced this feature in Preview for The Netherlands and Ireland. To nominate your organization, make sure you’re prepared to deploy PSTN Calling http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2017/03/skype-for-business-pstn-calling-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-8161803209781756764Tue, 07 Feb 2017 09:25:00 +00002017-02-07T10:25:57.235+01:00Office 365In early December (2016) Microsoft announced that the default mailbox limits in Exchange Online would be raised to 100 GB, a massive increase from the 5 GB that we considered to be huge in the BPOS era. Who needs such a large mailbox? Well, we do now apparently. While discussing this with my peers last week we noticed that most of us did not saw the change reflected in their tenants. Today I http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2017/02/new-100-gb-mailbox-limit-currently.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-6150891543782410609Mon, 06 Feb 2017 15:31:00 +00002017-02-06T16:31:34.386+01:00LyncOfficeOffice 365Skype for Business OnlineThe latest update for Office 2016 in Current Channel contains a fix for Skype for Business issue where the interface stops responding when the user has multiple IM windows open. The build number is 7668.2074, my Office 365 ProPlus was still on a slightly older build so I had to start the update process manually. For more information about the latest updates for Current, Deferred and First http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2017/02/fix-for-skype-for-business-hangs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-4282411984057850530Thu, 26 Jan 2017 12:55:00 +00002017-01-26T17:07:23.617+01:00AzureExchangeExchange 2007Exchange 2010Exchange 2013Exchange 2016Earlier this week Microsoft published a very interesting article: Exchange 2016 dev/test environment in Azure. I’m not a big fan of the how-to format of articles when the topic is around deployment because the guidance and specifics tend to change with later updates. There’s the risk of your article becoming obsolete sooner than planned. The article contains an excellent real-world example of howhttp://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2017/01/a-few-notes-on-running-exchange-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-9067299582638541345Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:43:00 +00002017-01-20T19:12:44.911+01:00ExchangeExchange 2010Exchange 2010 SP3Exchange 2013Exchange 2013 SP1Exchange 2016PowerShellToday the PowerShell team announced the release of version 5.1 of the Windows Management Framework, for most people better known as PowerShell 5.1. While Windows Server 2016 already contained WMF 5.1 when the product was released, the download released today allows administrator to install WMF 5.1 on older operating systems such as Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2. This is a reminder thathttp://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2017/01/windows-management-framework-wmf-51.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-3923596174005744119Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:45:00 +00002017-01-16T20:51:11.671+01:00Cloud PBXLyncOffice 365Skype for Business OnlineLCS/OCS/Lync/Skype has a long history when it comes to management of IP phone firmware updates. OCS 2007 R2 introduced the Device Update Service and greatly simplified the process and the required infrastructure. In the Lync 2010 timeframe the 3rd party IP phone (3PIP) certification added support for non-Microsoft firmware such as Polycom UC Software. In Lync Server 2010 for instance, an admin http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2017/01/microsoft-about-to-release-new-skype.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-9121953296505388867Wed, 11 Jan 2017 19:25:00 +00002017-01-11T20:25:16.557+01:00ExchangeOffice 365PowerShellMany organizations are enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all their accounts, or a subset such as for instance user accounts with an admin role. Especially with how easy this is with Office 365, even with the basic MFA feature that’s included with the license. Unfortunately enabling MFA on an admin account breaks the ability to use PowerShell to administer Exchange Online, Skype for http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2017/01/new-exchange-powershell-module-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-1917139649552750714Fri, 23 Dec 2016 13:13:00 +00002016-12-23T14:13:57.383+01:00Hyper-VServer 2012 R2Server 2016Today I ran into an issue while creating a new VM on a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host. The VM will run Server 2016 as well but throws an error message when Windows Setup loads: Windows installation encountered an unexpected error. Verify that the installation sources are accessible, and restart the installation. Error code: 0xE0000100" I downloaded a fresh copy of the ISO, deleted and http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2016/12/error-0xe0000100-when-installing-server.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-887684663206828994Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:15:00 +00002016-11-04T14:16:00.212+01:00ExchangeIn case you missed it, it’s currently not recommended to deploy Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016. The Windows Server team added a section dedicated to Exchange in their Windows Server 2016 Release Notes: If you attempt to run Microsoft Exchange 2016 CU3 on Windows Server 2016, you will experience errors in the IIS host process W3WP.exe. There is no workaround at this time. You should http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2016/11/reminder-recoverserver-to-older-version.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-4411743455890781176Fri, 04 Nov 2016 11:54:00 +00002016-11-04T12:54:22.912+01:00Microsoft TeamsOffice 365Yesterday Microsoft released a preview version of Microsoft Teams, the new product to compete with Slack. It will be very interesting to see Teams integrate in Office 365 as yet another collaboration product next to Skype for Business, Exchange, Yammer, SharePoint Newsfeed and Office 365 Groups. Currently Microsoft Teams is not enabled by default, a tenant admin has to enable the application in http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2016/11/microsoft-teams-heres-admin-guidance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1962846729636742616.post-7632819158353207994Fri, 04 Nov 2016 11:17:00 +00002016-11-04T12:17:29.062+01:00ExchangeOffice 365PowerShellFor some reason I have never worked with MFA with Office 365 until last year. And I must say, it is awesome! Even the free version of Azure MFA that’s included with the Office 365 subscription meets the requirements of most organizations. It’s very easy to setup and configure and the end-user experience is pretty good too, supporting text messages, phone call or the Azure Authenticator app. http://jetzemellema.blogspot.com/2016/11/office-365-mfa-is-awesome-unless-youre.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jetze Mellema)0